Solomon jacob wallacit



(No Model.)

s'. J. WALLACE. LOT TICKET AND SIZER.

No. 396,904. Patented Jan. 29,1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT SOLOMON JACOB "ATLACIT, OF NE\\' YORK, N. Y.

LOT TlCKET AND SiZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,904, dated January 29, 1889.

Application filed October 25, 1888. Serial No. 289,160. (No model.)

To all whom it may con/007 71 lie it known that l, SOLOMON JACOB WAL- LACH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain. new and useful. lmprownients in Lot-Tickets and Sizers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvenunlts in lot-ticketsand in the inarkin of the sizes on shirts and similar objects; and the objects of my improvements are to prevent the mistakes made by shirt-hamls in tacking a ticket with a wrong size on a shirt, as is often done, as hands usually have three or four different sizes to manufacture and negligently put the ticket havinga wrong size marked upon it on the shirts. I attain these objectsby the mechanism illlustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is the top of the shirt having my improved lot-ticket and sizer in use arourul the neckband thereof. Fig. 2 shows the lotticketand sizer before the lot-ticket is folded over the end of the sizer. Fig. I shows the lottieketfolded over the end of the sizer and ready for use. Fig. l is a section taken through .1: .r of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 shows the further end of the sizer when brought around the neckband of the shirtready to be inserted into the optming (1, formed by the told of the lot-ticket. Fig. Ii shows the relative position of the sizer and lot-ticket when in use. Fig. 7 is a section through y g of Fig. (3.

Similar letters refer 10 corresponding part, throughout the several views.

The lot-ticket and sizer is made by cutting a blank (preferably out of cardboard) in the shape shown by Fig. 2. Then it is marked with the inch-marks, as in Fig. 2, along the sizer (1., and with the lot-tieket marks, substantially as shown in lot-ticket l). The extension! 1; of the blank (which contains the lot-tickett) is then doubled ljiaclnvard against the back of the end pol the sizer o (by ereasing the blank about where the dotted linelis marked.) This would leave the part f (on which nothing is marked) of the extension 7r against the back of the end p of the sizer. Then I bring the lot-ticket Z) (by a second crease at about where the dotted line on is marked) around to the lrontol' the sizcr. The result is as shown in Fig. 3, (and also Fig. 4.) Then to keep the lot-ticket in this place I paste its back against the face of this end 10 v of the sizer. (The paste is indicated in Figs. 4 and 7 by a number of very short parallel lines, This of course leaves an opening, d, between the partf of the extension and the end '2) of the sizor. This is very cleau'ly seen in Fig. 5.

My improved lot ticket and sizer is now ready for use to be applied to the neckband of the shirt. To apply it, I just draw the further end, r,of the sizer around the neckband, (keeping the lot-ticket at the 'front of the shirt,) and insert this further end through the opening (7, (see Figs. 5, (3, and 7,) and pass this further end through the opening in this man ner as far as the neckhand will allow it to go. (See Fig. 1.) When the sizer is thus tight around the neckband, it will indicate the size of the neckband, (see Fig. 1, which in the ill ustrati on imlieates that the size of that neckhand is sixteen inches, to which attention is also directed by the word size and the indeX-tinger on the ital-ticket.) (It is known that the size of a shirt is the size of its neekband.) The opening (I is just a trifle wider than the sizer, so that the sizer can just pass through. The creases of the extensioi'i 7;, therefore, are so made that the part f is justa trifle wider than the sizer. The opening (Zheing just this tritle wider than the sizer (in practice the sizer touches it at bottom and top as it passes through) it sufficiently holds the sizer in place at its correct size; but a pin :run through the.

sizer and lot-ticket could be used as an additional way to keep the sizer in place, though in practice I find a pin unnecessary, as the opening (I lnakesquite a close iit fort-he sizer.

Formerly the only thing that was used was a lot-ticket, the size being marked directly upon it about upon that part of the ticket where the indexdland :lppears in the drawings. in making upshirts,howevergit customary to out all the parts of the shirt first, (including of course the neckbaml.) and to give these parts to hands lo sew together. At the same time the lot-tickets for the size of such cut neckband are gi venwitl l. th e out parts; but often hands when sewing on the neckband either make the button-hole thereof 1100 far away from the end or take too much seam, and the result is that the neckband does not measure according to the lot-ticket, as i11- tended. Now by using a sizer combined with the lot-ticket (as I do by myimproveinent) the sizer will necessarily indicate the real measurement when the shirt is finished.

Having described my invention so that others skilled in the art are enabled to make and use the same, what I claim is 'As an improved article of maml'faoture, a lot-ticket provided with an extension, 7r, and a sizer,a,the extension 711 being doubled over the end p of the sizer, forming thereby an 15 opening, (Z, on the back of the lot-ticket adapted to allow the size]? to be run through and held therein, and thus to mark the correct size, all constructed as and for the purpose substantially as described. 2o

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 23d day of October, A. D. 1888.

SOLOMON JACOB \VALLACH. \Vitnesses:

LEONARD B. SUTRo, .TosEPH N. PATCH 

